My bullet journal helps me kind of stay organized. Or at least I have a place where I can go to when I forget what I'm supposed to be doing! Haha. I had to switch to the app for all my substack subscriptions, otherwise my email inbox would have driven me nutty. I get notifications, so I don't think I miss anything. Plus, this way I can scroll through my substack inbox and read the ones that jump out at me.
I'm not a very organized person, but this year I decided to try one of those big wall calendars so I can see the whole year at a glance. The jury is still out on whether it's helping me or not!
Time flies by me too and I have a lot of hats to wear. I have a day job, take care of two young children, run my content creation sites and now I want to do more creative writing.
I am experimenting at the moment using the agile mindset, I plan in 2 weeks sprint and time box all the tasks for this in my calendar, which is also sync with my work and and the shared calendar with my husband bout kids and family events. I can't say yet if it's working but at least I have an overview and feel a little bit more in control. :)
ah our age is peak of time flying by as we have so much to do and torn into so many directions. I can imagine when we are old (like old old), time will be slow again.
About once a month, I find myself becoming completely overwhelmed with all the tasks I have to do. So I strip back, and avoid unnecessary distractions. All activities have to be valid. They need to be deemed as important so that I don't feel guilty about doing them, and potentially wasting time. Even if it's a ten-minute stretch or physio routine. That's important to me.
I have around 7 email accounts for various things. I've recently worked very hard on keeping emails in organised folders. A friend told me the other day that he has 7000 unopened emails. I think I'd go into meltdown.
Then there are the notes apps. Notes upon notes for different areas of tasks. A to do list for not so urgent things, and Live notes section for important things. Plus, my reminders app is always used. I set it to alert me at certain times that i need to do something. Like, if I think of something in bed, I set it to alert me when I wake up. Or when at work, if there's something to do when I get home, I set it to alert me when I reach the house, because of the GPS setting.
I's be lost without trying to keep a grip on things.
But at 44 years old, I'm becoming increasingly anxious that time is running out to achieve the things I want to do in life.
My bullet journal helps me kind of stay organized. Or at least I have a place where I can go to when I forget what I'm supposed to be doing! Haha. I had to switch to the app for all my substack subscriptions, otherwise my email inbox would have driven me nutty. I get notifications, so I don't think I miss anything. Plus, this way I can scroll through my substack inbox and read the ones that jump out at me.
I'm not a very organized person, but this year I decided to try one of those big wall calendars so I can see the whole year at a glance. The jury is still out on whether it's helping me or not!
Time flies by me too and I have a lot of hats to wear. I have a day job, take care of two young children, run my content creation sites and now I want to do more creative writing.
I am experimenting at the moment using the agile mindset, I plan in 2 weeks sprint and time box all the tasks for this in my calendar, which is also sync with my work and and the shared calendar with my husband bout kids and family events. I can't say yet if it's working but at least I have an overview and feel a little bit more in control. :)
ah our age is peak of time flying by as we have so much to do and torn into so many directions. I can imagine when we are old (like old old), time will be slow again.
I can so resonate with this. In fact, I wrote a similar blog. Here if you want to check it out: https://constructioncogs.com/creating-peace-to-slow-the-world-down/
About once a month, I find myself becoming completely overwhelmed with all the tasks I have to do. So I strip back, and avoid unnecessary distractions. All activities have to be valid. They need to be deemed as important so that I don't feel guilty about doing them, and potentially wasting time. Even if it's a ten-minute stretch or physio routine. That's important to me.
I have around 7 email accounts for various things. I've recently worked very hard on keeping emails in organised folders. A friend told me the other day that he has 7000 unopened emails. I think I'd go into meltdown.
Then there are the notes apps. Notes upon notes for different areas of tasks. A to do list for not so urgent things, and Live notes section for important things. Plus, my reminders app is always used. I set it to alert me at certain times that i need to do something. Like, if I think of something in bed, I set it to alert me when I wake up. Or when at work, if there's something to do when I get home, I set it to alert me when I reach the house, because of the GPS setting.
I's be lost without trying to keep a grip on things.
But at 44 years old, I'm becoming increasingly anxious that time is running out to achieve the things I want to do in life.
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